Group, 1930 The Skyliners Big Band was formed in 1930, as a dance section of the Cape Verdean Ultramarine Band Club (which was not a lounge band but rather a band of street performances, in parades and commemorative events), according to A Salute to the Cape Verdean Musicians and Their Read more
Félix Edmund Barboza USA, 1914 – USA, 1993 Instrumentalist (trumpet) Phill Barboza is one of the North American musicians of Cape Verdean origin whose artistic career falls within the world of jazz, but who still maintains a connection with the music of the land of the ascendants – his father Read more
James Lomba New Bedford, U.S.A, 1912 – New Bedford, U.S.A, 1999 Instrumentalist (saxophone) Son of immigrants from Brava, Jimmy Lomba became interested in music early on, particularly jazz. With money earned working in a clothing factory, at the age of 19 he bought his first saxophone. He studied music with Read more
Joseph Calasanes Livramento New Bedford, Massachusetts, U.S.A., 1920 – U.S.A., 2003 Instrumentalist (wind instruments), composer Clarinetist, flautist, saxophonist, band leader and composer, Joe Livramento had a 66-year career as a music professional, which began when he was still a teenager, at 17, and continued until the end of his life. Read more
George C. Azevedo Riverside, Rhode Island, U.S.A. – Riverside, Rhode Island, U.S.A., 2008 Instrumentalist (tenor saxophone) George Azevedo began his career in the 1940s playing in jazz and blues bands in the region of Rhode Island and Massachusetts. He was part of many groups including Duke Oliver, Phill Edmond and Read more
Franciso Monteiro New Bedford, U.S.A, 1917 – New Bedford, U.S.A, 2010 Instrumentalist (wind instruments) Frank “Chico” Monteiro, although not being a professional and without having recorded solo, was a very well-known musician among the Cape Verdean community in Massachusetts, having been a part of the Duke Oliver and Al Lopes Read more
Orchestra, circa 1930s The Duke Oliver’s Creole Vagabonds – name it had initially, changing it later to Duke Oliver’s Orchestra – it’s one of the big bands formed by Cape Verdeans in the golden period of dance music with big orchestras, the swing era. According to Ron Barboza in A Read more
Group 1930 – (?) Big band formed by Cape Verdeans or descendants in the New England region in the U.S.A during the “swing era”, 1930’s. Joe Livramento was a member of the orchestra during his youth.
Group (1920s – 1930s) Orchestra de Notias was one of several Cape Verdean groups that existed in the United States in the 1920s/1930s. Its leader was the violinist Cândido Almeida, “Notias”. Between 1929 and 1935, three groups formed by Cape Verdeans made a set of forty recordings at the Columbia Read more
Group (1920s-1930s) Johnny Perry’s Portuguese Criolo Trio was the first Cape Verdean group to record an album. On January 29, 1929, he recorded a waltz and a polka, on a gramophone record released by Columbia, in New York. The group later made other recordings, under different names: Johhny Perry’s Instrumental Read more